Made a new script to handle sending an alert email if postfix is found to have crashed

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Tristan Ancelet 2023-11-17 13:37:45 -06:00
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#!/usr/bin/bash
# BEGIN: Variables
## Duration to wait to see if service has come back up
DURATION=10
## Wait duration to send next part of message
WAIT=1
## Test flag
TEST=0
## Email addresses
NOTIFY_EMAIL=recipient@domain.com
MAIL_FROM=username@domain.net
DAMAIN=` echo $NOTIFY_EMAIL | cut -d @ -f 2 `
# END: Variables
# BEGIN: Helper Functions
send_email () {
local MESSAGE="${1:?"send_email: No message was passed through"}"
sendmail $NOTIFY_EMAIL <<< "$MESSAGE"
}
: "
The only option is to manually telnet to the smtp port on the authoritative mailserver for the target domain. As otherwise unless a mail-host is configured for email proxy, you will be unable to send an email to a user outside of the mailservers domain (without authentication).
"
do_emergency_email () {
local MESSAGE="${1:-"The Postfix service has failed to come up on tartarus (192.168.3.2) after a service restart. Please ssh into server to troubleshoot the issues."}"
## Getting a mailserver IP for manual message
MAILSERVER=`dig $DOMAIN mx | grep -Eo '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' | head -n 1`
## Setting up coprocess to send commands to telnet session
coproc TELNET { telnet $MAILSERVER 25; }
## Commands to send email manually
local -a commands=(
"ehlo camtel.net\n"
"mail from: <$MAIL_FROM>\n"
"rcpt to: <$NOTIFY_EMAIL>\n"
"data\n"
"Subject: Postfix Service Failure\nFrom: $MAIL_FROM\nTo: $NOTIFY_EMAIL\n"
"$MESSAGE\n\n.\n"
"quit\n"
)
## Iterate through commands and send them to coprocesses
### We need to wait before each command as the remote mailserver will not catch everything otherwise.
for i in ${!commands[@]}; do
COMMAND="${commands[$i]}"
echo -e "$COMMAND" >&${TELNET[1]}
sleep $WAIT
done
}
# END: Helper Functions
# BEGIN: Test Check
if [[ $TEST -eq 1 ]]; then
MESSAGE_1="
This is a test message to verify that postfix can send an email
"
send_email "$MESSAGE_1"
MESSAGE_2="This is a test email to make sure the postfix crash workaround email works"
do_emergency_email "$MESSAGE_2"
exit
fi
# END: Test Check
# BEGIN: Work
if [[ `systemctl is-active postfix` != 'active' ]]; then
systemctl restart postfix
sleep $DURATION
SERVICE_STATUS=` systemctl is-active postfix `
if [[ "$SERVICE_STATUS" == 'active' ]]; then
MESSAGE="
SUBJECT: Postfix Service Failure
FROM: root
TO: $NOTIFY_EMAIL
The postfix service on `hostname` (`hostname -i`) was found to be not running.
The service has been restarted, and after waiting $DURATION seconds it was found to be $SERVICE_STATUS.
"
send_email "$MESSAGE"
else
do_emergency_email
fi
fi
# END: Work